Are you one of the millions of Americans who think that the hotdog is a sandwich? If you answered yes to this question, well, I have bad news for you. You are wrong, and clearly cannot be trusted. Look people, let’s just make this easy and use the logic of calling something what it really is. I’ll begin by making a list of items and you let me know what they all have in common.
·Ham sandwich
·Grilled cheese sandwich
·Tuna fish sandwich
·Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Hopefully you can see that here in America, when something is a sandwich, we call it as such. You wouldn’t ask someone to grab you a hotdog sandwich, would you? I didn’t think so. If that is not good enough, let us hear what the good people who define things for a living have to say on the matter.
Sandwich noun
1.An item of food consisting of two pieces of bread with meat, cheese, or other filling between them, eaten as a light meal.
Are we now so brazen as to call the dictionary a liar? Just because something may resemble another item, does not make it so. Furthermore, the word sandwich as a verb has an important relevance in this discussion. Being sandwiched between something means to be caught between opposite and opposing forces. Similar to how meat and cheese is sandwiched between opposite and opposing pieces of bread. When you alter that meat-bread relationship, whether it be by hinging the bread or wrapping it, you completely change the dynamic and thus the fundamental nature of what “sandwichness” is.
Finally, if all of that evidence is not enough to change your mind, over the weekend the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council stated in an official press release that “a hotdog is not a sandwich.” Common sense and decency has prevailed.
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